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Inhuman update
just fyi, if all goes accordingly, this final arc will END 4/9/23. there'll be a really weirdly timed april fools comic in there, otherwise it'd end on the like. 3rd. after that i plan to take a month off to complete the epilogue, and then....it'll be over. comic done. fin.
i plan to do a print run, but before that i want to finish redrawing arc 4. a project that'll take a little more time than it should, because a lot of the in-progress redrawn pages were lost when my ipad failed spectacularly last month. but that's long term stuff.
if you'd like early access to the batches of final pages, you want to be backing my kofi.
and before you scroll further, please consider helping these two folks:
VaguePlagues is Still homeless and needs support. his Kofi is the best way to do that.
Noct is planning for Gender-Affirming Surgery and could really use a hand raising funds. he's started a gofundme for the purpose.
moving on...
still not feeling great, and the us political agenda against trans and sick people sure isnt helping. while the political leaders on the right are literally calling for the "eradication" of trans people, my "liberal" family continues to defend their subscriptions to the new york times and say things like "trans oppression isn't a priority for the right." yeah, ok, you wanna figure out where my plot in the graveyard is now and save yourselves some time or what?
in less downer news, i was accepted into the Cartoonist Cooperative and i'm really pleased with how they're already working towards making it so discord is NOT the be-all-end-all way to communicate and organize within the group. i hate discord, i think i've said this before. i dont like how gamerfied it is & i dislike that i cant rotate my mobile device to have an easier time typing. i'm not really a fan of instant messaging as it is at all really... but it's nice to know the coop has a forum for members to check instead of having to constantly be getting little bing bing bing dot dot dot notifications everywhere that never go away and leave me with a perpetual nagging dread that something important is happening and requires immediate response from me.
speaking of discord, you're going to want to crack open email and send them a note because they're doing some shady automaticly opted in mandatory arbitration. you have to email them to opt out.
this week i (with no help from the joke that is the modern search engine and only help from drawings i saved in a scrapbook from when i was a teenie...) rediscovered a comic series i was really into in the 90s, though i only read maybe two or three issues at the time. it was called TroubleMakers. no wonder it became forgotten media - it was by the short lived Acclaim comics divison (yeah the video game company) and only ran for 19 issues. since it couldn't use copyrighted terms like "superteens" or "mutants" and the characters' names and abilities were truly generic (parker, chris, zach and jane... with blur, xl, gravity-field and chaos-field) it wasn't something that really could be searched for. or rather if i did, i got unrelated marvel & DC heros called "blur" or "xl" and a bunch of rando celebs like "chris parker") but thankfully teen me tried to replicate the cover logo at some point. a vital clue, even if it was in crayon. rainbow cemetery found pdfs, and away i went down nostalgia road.
... and listen, they weren't great comics lmfao.
the concept is solid (pharma giant creates mutant kids for profit) but solo writer Fabian Nicieza reall just. sucks. especially when he tries to tackle larger issues like... what it is to be a teen girl having a bad or confusing sexual encounter. or race. at first it was just kind of genericly awkward 90s racist shit but as the series went on and Fabian lost his two non-white partners (penciler Kenny Martinez and inker Anibal Rodriguez) it begins a rapid slide into just typical garbage bullshit where only "educated" POC are good people and anyone coming from less means is somehow doing it because they don't??? want??? to work hard??? there's also a bizzare trend towards religious imagery that starts to bleed in from what i guess was a different Acclaim comic called Solaris. also once martinez and rodriguez leave they are replaced by someone who took pages out of the rob liefeld school of drawing women and, very clearly and very very awkwardly, trace porno. for a bunch of teen characters. cool cool cool.
though i did like the issue where one of the kids demands why the pharma giant that created and controls them won't spend time researching cancer cures, and when all the adults just kind of refuse to give an answer he straight up blackmails them into trying to help a kid he met w lukemia. even if it ended in the predictable death of that child. pretty ballsy in broad concept.
i think that's what attracted me as a teen, anyway? the broad concept was something i connected with and liked. but as writing goes, fabian failed to deliver anything beyond a good concept. i dunno, maybe he's still around in the industry and his writing is better now. that'd be nice to learn.
now that i've gone on for way too long abt a 90s comic no one else cares about, i think its prob time for me to sign off.
see you next week
just fyi, if all goes accordingly, this final arc will END 4/9/23. there'll be a really weirdly timed april fools comic in there, otherwise it'd end on the like. 3rd. after that i plan to take a month off to complete the epilogue, and then....it'll be over. comic done. fin.
i plan to do a print run, but before that i want to finish redrawing arc 4. a project that'll take a little more time than it should, because a lot of the in-progress redrawn pages were lost when my ipad failed spectacularly last month. but that's long term stuff.
if you'd like early access to the batches of final pages, you want to be backing my kofi.
and before you scroll further, please consider helping these two folks:
VaguePlagues is Still homeless and needs support. his Kofi is the best way to do that.
Noct is planning for Gender-Affirming Surgery and could really use a hand raising funds. he's started a gofundme for the purpose.
moving on...
still not feeling great, and the us political agenda against trans and sick people sure isnt helping. while the political leaders on the right are literally calling for the "eradication" of trans people, my "liberal" family continues to defend their subscriptions to the new york times and say things like "trans oppression isn't a priority for the right." yeah, ok, you wanna figure out where my plot in the graveyard is now and save yourselves some time or what?
in less downer news, i was accepted into the Cartoonist Cooperative and i'm really pleased with how they're already working towards making it so discord is NOT the be-all-end-all way to communicate and organize within the group. i hate discord, i think i've said this before. i dont like how gamerfied it is & i dislike that i cant rotate my mobile device to have an easier time typing. i'm not really a fan of instant messaging as it is at all really... but it's nice to know the coop has a forum for members to check instead of having to constantly be getting little bing bing bing dot dot dot notifications everywhere that never go away and leave me with a perpetual nagging dread that something important is happening and requires immediate response from me.
speaking of discord, you're going to want to crack open email and send them a note because they're doing some shady automaticly opted in mandatory arbitration. you have to email them to opt out.
this week i (with no help from the joke that is the modern search engine and only help from drawings i saved in a scrapbook from when i was a teenie...) rediscovered a comic series i was really into in the 90s, though i only read maybe two or three issues at the time. it was called TroubleMakers. no wonder it became forgotten media - it was by the short lived Acclaim comics divison (yeah the video game company) and only ran for 19 issues. since it couldn't use copyrighted terms like "superteens" or "mutants" and the characters' names and abilities were truly generic (parker, chris, zach and jane... with blur, xl, gravity-field and chaos-field) it wasn't something that really could be searched for. or rather if i did, i got unrelated marvel & DC heros called "blur" or "xl" and a bunch of rando celebs like "chris parker") but thankfully teen me tried to replicate the cover logo at some point. a vital clue, even if it was in crayon. rainbow cemetery found pdfs, and away i went down nostalgia road.
... and listen, they weren't great comics lmfao.
the concept is solid (pharma giant creates mutant kids for profit) but solo writer Fabian Nicieza reall just. sucks. especially when he tries to tackle larger issues like... what it is to be a teen girl having a bad or confusing sexual encounter. or race. at first it was just kind of genericly awkward 90s racist shit but as the series went on and Fabian lost his two non-white partners (penciler Kenny Martinez and inker Anibal Rodriguez) it begins a rapid slide into just typical garbage bullshit where only "educated" POC are good people and anyone coming from less means is somehow doing it because they don't??? want??? to work hard??? there's also a bizzare trend towards religious imagery that starts to bleed in from what i guess was a different Acclaim comic called Solaris. also once martinez and rodriguez leave they are replaced by someone who took pages out of the rob liefeld school of drawing women and, very clearly and very very awkwardly, trace porno. for a bunch of teen characters. cool cool cool.
though i did like the issue where one of the kids demands why the pharma giant that created and controls them won't spend time researching cancer cures, and when all the adults just kind of refuse to give an answer he straight up blackmails them into trying to help a kid he met w lukemia. even if it ended in the predictable death of that child. pretty ballsy in broad concept.
i think that's what attracted me as a teen, anyway? the broad concept was something i connected with and liked. but as writing goes, fabian failed to deliver anything beyond a good concept. i dunno, maybe he's still around in the industry and his writing is better now. that'd be nice to learn.
now that i've gone on for way too long abt a 90s comic no one else cares about, i think its prob time for me to sign off.
see you next week
